The Unknowns Quotes

“Kids like teachers who are good at teaching, but teaching is difficult, so a lot of teachers settle for being friendly.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns

“And then I had to go on these dates, dozens of them, one after another, all formally identical, struggling each time to remember that I was seated across from an entire human being with a unique consciousness and a full set of associations, each of us iterating on our questions and answers like algorithms trying to mate.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns

“We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns

“This kind of information is inherently distorted: we see others from the outside, all smooth surfaces and fixed appearances, and ourselves from the inside, with our subjectivities and histories and bodily fluids.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns

“We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.”
― Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns